ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,158, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LightTwist Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"System for cloud-based shared virtual studio" was invented by Vikas Muppidi Reddy (Boulder, Colo.) and Gustavo Buzogany Eboli (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating and generating virtual studio environments and visual content in which physical separated participants appear to a viewer within a shared physical environment. The system may allow for both live streaming content as the live studio environment is rendered and for production of a post recording streaming content for publication to various streaming services."

The patent wa...